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Still-photo camera solves (Nuke X)

…Nuke's camera tracker has always been excellent for sol for sequences frames.…With Nuke8 you can now use the camera tracker…for a series of photography stills like a set survey.…There are important photography guidelines in the user…guides so be sure to check those out.…Let me show you what I'm working with.…I've got a series of stills here that walk around this building.…Now you'll notice there's a duplicate there, and…we'll step around, and oh there's another duplicate.…And we'll walk over here and hm, another duplicate.…

And there you go.…Okay.…So I've got 12 pictures, three of them are duplicate.…But no problem.…The camera tracker node is designed for you to…pick just the pictures you want to use to track.…So we'll select our read node, and ask for a camera tracker.…And here's the setup for doing stills.…Set the source to stills.…We're not using a mask, so we'll leave that as none.…We'll set the input to reference frames.…This is how we're going to pick the frames we want to use.…Now I'm going to use most of the frames.…

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7/7/2014

Join digital compositing pioneer and Nuke compositing authority Steve Wright for a tour of the new features in the latest Nuke release from The Foundry. Chapter 2 of this course covers Nuke's 2D enhancements, including video scopes and the Pixel Analyzer, as well as Dope Sheet, viewer, and Text node updates. Chapter 3 digs into the 3D features, including the new ParticleCache and EditGeo nodes and brand-new camera tracking for still photos—a feature Nuke artists have long anticipated.

Note: This course is specifically designed for current Nuke artists who just want to learn about the new features in Nuke. For a more thorough exploration of Nuke 8, check out Steve's Nuke 8 Essential Training course.